Visiting professor: Students need more math, not less

Manhattan Community College professor lectures how to better engage students by showing examples during GSU lecture series

9:21 PM,
Mar. 12, 2014

Brett Sims, an associate mathematics professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York, recently returned to Grambling State University to deliver the Region Endowed Chair Lecture Series at Carver Hall.

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E?vonne Gipson
Grambling State University Media Bureau

Brett Sims, an associate mathematics professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York, has a deep concern: "Students know less mathematics today with more technology than when my father was in school, and they had no technology."

Knowing math means knowing yourself and knowing your surroundings, and we all need to know those things, he said.

Sims recently returned to Grambling State University to deliver the Region Endowed Chair Lecture Series at Carver Hall. Sims, also known as Abdur-Rahman Munajj, was the head of the GSU math and computer science department from 2005-09. ...